Nato ready to launch tanker stop-and-search operation NATO leaders are increasingly confident that Russia's objections to a seaborne oil embargo on Yugoslavia will come to nothing.
Hellenic yard managers face threat of abrupt replacement A PREDOMINAntLY British management team which has led Hellenic Shipyards back to some semblance of health in the last two-and-a-half years may learn this week whether it is to be ousted from the yard.
Bears still rule boxship charter market but change is in the offing CHINA Shipping Container Lines' recent foray into the containership charter market to obtain tonnage for its brand new Europe/Asia service that began on Saturday has contributed significantly to an increase in the earnings ability of larger vessels.
'State has effectively surrendered sovereignty of territorial seas' A major debate is opening up on the future of the Irish Naval Service. For some time there has been uncertainty about the role of the service following government reviews of the defence forces, postponements in the publication dates of White Papers and re-examination of the reviews.
Hopes rise for Sea-Land compromise SEA-LAND'S reluctance to terminate its existing partnership arrangements on the Atlantic for another year is delaying efforts to re-organise container shipping services between the US and Europe.
A PROMINENT pro-Jakarta militia leader . . . A PROMINENT pro-Jakarta militia leader has called for East Timor to be split if an upcoming vote favours leaving Indonesia, Reuters reports.
Is this really the way shipping wants to end the century? I do not speak of millennia on this occasion, just the last tenth bit, the bloody 20th century. Nor do I allude to the awful business in the Balkans, though the Balkans figured in the political agenda at the beginning of the period. Balkans incompatibility, like human incompatibility elsewhere on the globe, defy resolution no matter how much goodwill exists to be expended upon them and the only apparent alternative to goodwill seems to be high explosive. Let us set that aside and concentrate on something which is tractable, something we already know all the answers to.
Manila Bay back to normal after oil spill HARBOUR operations have returned to normal following completion of the clean-up operation and recovery of the tanker which caused one of Manila Bay's worst oil spills, writes Alec Almazan, Manila.
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